When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
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